Proceedings 1966 Part 1

These proceedings ran from 1962 to 2019 before being replaced by our newest publication The Cumberland Geologist. Each Proceedings has been digitized and made searchable.

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Contents

The Fifth Annual General MeetingPage 1
The Presidential Address delivered by E. H. Shackleton, F.G.S.5
Oil and Natural Gas Exploration in the Eastern Irish Sea, C. V. Knife13
Celebrated Lake District Geologists, R. Harkness19
The Occurrence of Calamites Fossilised in situ in the Coal Measures at Bransty Cliffs, Whitehaven, R. E. O. Pearson22
Zeolites, Dr. G. McL Biggar25
The Long Meg Anhydrite Mine32
Excursion to Intrusive Rocks in Skiddaw Slates of Dent33
Excursion to the Murton Fell Area35
Excursion to the Seathwaite Plumbago Mine39
Weekend Camping Excursion to the Ingleton Area40
Excursion to the Rachel Wood Mine, Thornthwaite43
Field Meeting at Kentmere, Westmorland46
Excursion to Great Hall Gill, Whin Rigg and Wasdale Screes47
Some Little-studied British Landforms50
Making and Equipping a Field Case57